[l2h] Re: latex2html digest, Vol 1 #181 - 3 msgs

Joao Ferreira jmf@estg.ipvc.pt
Mon, 29 Oct 2001 08:58:20 +0000


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>    1. Index entries include trailing format specifications
>        such as '|textbf' (Julius Smith)
>    2. AGENTS WANTED ! (Motortyme Oy)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 13:09:45 -0800
> To: latex2html@tug.org
> From: Julius Smith <jos@w3k.org>
> Subject: [l2h] Index entries include trailing format specifications
>   such as '|textbf'
>
> I discovered that index entries including a format specification, such as
>
>         keyword\index{keyword|textbf}
>
> produce keys in the HTML index including the format spec, i.e.,
> "keyword|textbf" appears in the final Index.html entries generated by
> latex2html.  This problem does not appear to occur when the makeidx package
> is used (invoking styles/makeidx.perl).  Below is a one-line fix that works
> in all cases I have tested:
>
> *** latex2html~ Fri Sep 28 14:17:52 2001
> --- latex2html  Sun Oct 28 12:30:44 2001
> ***************
> *** 8322,8327 ****
> --- 8322,8328 ----
>         }
>         $str = $current[$#current];
>         $str =~ s/\#\#\#\d+$//o; # Remove the unique id's
> +       $str =~ s/\|(.*)$//; # Remove any trailing macro wrapper spec (NEW)
>         $index .= $index{$key} .
>             # If it's the same string don't start a new line
>             (&index_key_eq(join('',@current), join('',@previous)) ?
> --------------------
>
> Note that page 154 of Lamport (1994) gives some "fine print" about the
> behavior of '|' in an index entry.  E.g., it can be quoted by a preceding
> `"' unless the `"' is preceded by `\'.  Since this fine print does not seem
> to be supported for `!', I didn't try to add it here.  Due to prior
> transformations on the index key strings, it would take         a bit of research
> to get this right.
>
> Julius
>
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> From: "Motortyme Oy" <w2222@saunalahti.fi>
> To: "latex2html@tug.org" <latex2html@tug.org>
> Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 02:21:31 +0200
> Subject: [l2h] AGENTS WANTED !
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